Zaun v. Dobbin’s Empirical Analysis
628 F.2d 990 · 1980
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently September 2013 · most notably Bryan v. Johnson (1987), In re Williamson (1986)
14 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1915
Relies on Adkins v. E. I. DuPont de Nemours & Co. · Braden v. Estelle · Jefferson v. United States · United States v. Alphonso R. Randolph Appeal of A. C. Waller, in No. 71-1231. Appeal of James Weathers, in No. 71-1232
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Any court of the United States may authorize the commencement, prosecution or defense of any suit, action or proceeding, civil or criminal, ... without prepayment of fees and costs ... by a person who makes an affidavit that he is unable to pay such costs or give security therefore ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]f a litigant cannot pay the full filing fee or other court expenses, but it would not be economically unfair for him to pay a portion of the costs, it should be within the court's authority to order payment of a portion of the expense while waiving the remainder.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bryan v. Johnson
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.